Dispenser.



0. DE JULIO.

DISPENSER.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 1, 19 11.

Patented Apr. 9, 1912.

whereby thewhole may be securely fastened onm'sr 1m JULIO, or SAN rmncrsco, CALIFORNIA.

Specification ofi-Iietters Patent.

DIsrnNsER.

Patented Apr. 9,1912.

Application filed June 1, 1911.- Serial No. 630,555.

To all tuhom it may concern Be it known /that I,- CHRIST DE JULIO, citizen of the United States, residing"in.the

, city and county of .San Francisco and State of Cal'fornia', have invented new and useful Improvements in Dispensers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device wherefrom may be dispensed certain measured quantities of powder or other material. The object of the present invention is to provide an extremely simple, inexpensive,

ornamental device from which may be'disthrough the device.

pensed powder or other material, as desired, and which may be readily attached to any -convenient support, and which particularly is sanitary, dust and vermin-proof.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-.-

F'gure' 1 'is a vertical "central section Fig. 2 is atransverse, horizontal, sectional view in the plane of the axis of the valve.

One of the salient and important features of the invention is toiprovide a container from which may be dispensed in measured volumes powdered material, which may be used for any purpose, or in fact any other material. The 'device may be filled with a powdered soap and comprises 'a suitably shaped vessel or body 2, having a lower conicalshaped portion 3 terminating in a cylinder or tube .4. tightly byv a suitable cover 5, vhaving a depending flange 6 which is provided with.

The upper end of the container is closed bayonet slots 7 adapted to engage inwardly projecting pins 8, secured upon the interior ofdthe container 2 adjacent to the upper en a When the material to be dispensed has been'filled into the container through the open upper end, it may be closed tightly by placing the cover in position upon the top of the can andtiiining it 'suificiently to causethe pins 8 to be encom assed by the walls of the bayonet slots thus very tightly closing the container. Any'suitable form of bracket or attachment, indicated at 9, may be'formed upon,

or secured to, the body of. the container,

wall, stand;etc.

It is very ,desirable to provide a 'container having a means controlling the volume of material to be discharged when required, and I have found that a very'efiective, simple and inexpensive controlling device is obtained by usin a substantially spherical valve member 10, which is made of a slightly compressible material having a snug fit withthe interior of the discharge cylindrical mouth-piece 4. The valve memberl-O is perforated diametrically witha be inserted a polygonal stem or axle 12, upon'which may be formed orv attached at one end, a handle portion, as 13. Upon the other end ofthe axle 12 is formed a screw 14; adapted to receive a handle portion 15 which may be designed to correspond with the handle portion 13 of the axle 12. The

. tubular mouth-piece e is perforated at dia- 'rnetrically opposite points to permit. the insertlon ofthe stem 12, so that the latter can be passed through the axial perforation through the mouth-piece 4 and the included piece 15 isthen screwed upon theportion 14 of the stem 12, and this permits the valve .to beturnedsfrom either the right-hand or left-hand side of the container with equal facility. 7

'. The valve member 10 is of'peculiar and of radial vanes 16, which are in plan view substantiallyv semicircular, and which are equally spaced circumferentially around the axis of the valve member 10 so as to form segment shaped chambers-or cavities 17 be.-

tween their adjacent faces. The valve memlit with the interior of the mouth-piece fl, and when the container is'charged withrthe material to be dispensed it falls upon the the center of the valve. As the latter is rotated by one or the other of the handles 13 or'15, only that quantity of powder or other materialfwill' be delivered from the container as was contained in one of the cavities 17 between the adjacent faces of the valve blades 16. I 1

1 'By making the valve of' some slightly to any convenient or appropriate shelf,

valve member 10, the screw threaded handle valve and fills the several cavities 17 above' polygonal chamber 11, through which may 11 inthe rotary, compressible valve memberClO. After the stem 12 has been inserted special construction involving a plurality ber 10, as stated before, has a snug working compressible or resilient material, at some time or other some of the blades 16 are in frictional contact with the interior walls of the mouth-piece 4, and the contents of the receiveri's prevented from percolating or sifting past the valve, and only given quantities of the material will be discharged at each rotation of the valve sufiicient to expose pm of the cavities '17 which has been charged.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Batent, is

A dispense-r, including a suitably shaped receptacle having a mouth-piece of smaller diameter and made circular .in cross .sectlon, a valve formed of resilient material,

having a hub portion to receive the stem of the handles and said handles 'permittin 'the valve to be actuated @from either side 0 the dispenser.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRIST DE JULIO. Witnesses:

E. DAoos'rlmz, FRED CARFAGM. 

